I printed this iPhone stand several months ago, and I’m mixed about it. On the one hand, I find it really attractive. On the flip side, I cannot reach the iPhone’s buttons while it’s in the stand. The jury’s still out.

I printed this iPhone stand several months ago, and I’m mixed about it. On the one hand, I find it really attractive. On the flip side, I cannot reach the iPhone’s buttons while it’s in the stand. The jury’s still out.
With CES this month, many companies have announced new MagSafe accessories on the way, including several expensive charging stands. I’ve gone a little more budget to solve this problem with this MagSafe charging stand I bought off Amazon for <$20. It’s a bent piece of metal (aluminum?) with a slot cut in the middle and a rubber piece glued on with a perfectly shaped MagSafe charger hole in the middle.
All I had to do was take my existing MagSafe charger, feed the cable through the slot, and press the MagSafe puck into the MagSafe puck-sized hole. It’s no more than a stand for the existing MagSafe charger, but it works great. The magnet in the MagSafe charger is plenty strong to hold the iPhone. It isn’t as elegant as a built-together device in that the cable most definitely does hang out the back.
Regardless, it looks great. It doesn’t cost much, and it’s available now.